Montagut, Ewart & Co. to William Temple Franklin
(unpublished)
Barcelona 1st. Octr. 1783
We use the freedom to hand you on the other side the Circular
Letter of our establishment in this place to which we crave your
reference—Please accept of our warmest acknowledgements for your
kind attention to Our Mr. Ewart & M. Gower during their short
stay in your Metropolis, and in our turn of our establishment here
can at any period be of use to you or your friends it will give us
plessure to have frequent Occasions to testify to you our just
sense of gratitude for your Civlities to them.—
We will hold it as a particular favour your making mention of
our house, to such of your friends in America you may have
Occasion to write to we mean those that are in the way of sending
Grain & Fish to the Mediteranean but previous to a step of this
kind you may perhaps wish to take some informations Conserning the
Solidity of our establishment the probity and honour of our Acting
Partners; in that case permit us to address you to the Houses
mentioned at foot, tho’ at same time we assure you none can give
You more satisfactory eclaircissements upon that head than your
old acquaintance M. Daummond
We are with unfeigned Regard Sir Your most obt. hum. Servt.
We take the liberty to acquaint you of the establishment we have
made in this city, under the firm of Montagut, Ewart, and Company,
and to wait upon you with our best offers of service.
Our Company is formed by friends who are concerned with us en
commandite, and by Mr. A. Gower, of whose signature, as well as
ours, we beg you will take note.
Mr. Montagut is a native of Reus; and, as he possesses
considerable landed property in that quarter, he will continue to
reside there, the better to execute the orders which we may
transmit to him from our friends, for the purchase and expediton
of the produce of that neighbourhood.—We flatter ourselves by his
means, and by the experience which our A. Ewart and A. Gower have
acquired of the trade of this country during a residence of about
fourteen years, together with the very sufficient capital we
possess, that we shall be able to serve our employers to the
greatest advantage, and we hope that the zeal and activity with
which we shall attend to their interest, both in the purchase and
sale of goods, consignments of ships, and whatever else they may
commit to our charge, will recommend and entitle us more and more
to their confidence and friendship
We have the honour to be,
Sir Your most obedient humble servants,